5 Year Reunion Songtext
von DESA

Another youthful plan gets dragged to shore
One more angel fails her pregnancy test
Diploma dangles amid grade school photos
Yearbook autographs are my only connection
The disappearing ink signatures are like fossils now
Of children′s stories into the ground
Lost track of faces I swore I'd always remember
Childhood left without a sound
I stare at old drawings and things I′ve written down and I think
The disappearing ink sketches must be from another world

Nine years ago I felt like I'd be young forever
Now phantom foreign roads have apartments with no address
This shapeless poem grows in shadows as it stretches
Farther across my lined paper life


Another color fades from memory
One more dream gets tangled and threatens to drown
Kisses sparkle between cloudy weekdays
We wait for a rent check, it's checkmate for most kids
We play by the rules but it′s someone else′s game
How I miss those secret sounds
Of fluttering eyelash or a dance floor collision
Childhood left without a sound

My eyes were stuck on angels as the plane went down in the distance
The search and rescue future still has much to figure out
Nine years ago I felt like I'd be young forever
Now phantom foreign roads have apartments with no address
This shapeless poem grows in shadows as it stretches
Farther across my lined paper life

If I knew then what I know now
I know this time is over
Lonely sidewalks are the scenes
That only exist to make you younger